Trouser-word
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trouser-word-294-16176596
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Trouser-word
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In John Langshaw Austin's philosophy of language and the book Sense and Sensibilia, a trouser-word is a term that is not itself defined in terms of content, but only gains meaning through the contrast to its negation. The negative use "wears the trousers in the relationship." According to Austin, terms are usually defined by their own criteria. To know what it means that something is X, one has to know the criteria for it. Only with this knowledge can one say when something is not X. With trouse
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2024-01-08T12:47:58Z
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